Two people were killed and three others wounded by stabbings in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht on Thursday evening, police said.
Police said in a statement there were two stabbing incidents within a few hundred metres of each other in a...

Bitcoin has a dirty secret.
The cryptocurrency has wowed markets this year with breakneck gains as investors flocked to an asset that exists only in cyberspace. But the laborious creation of each digital bitcoin by private computer networks has real-world consequences in...

Jurors have convicted an Iowa woman of murder in the starvation death of her 16-year-old daughter, who weighed only 85 pounds when she died.
The 12-person jury found Nicole Finn, 43, guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child endangerment in the October...

President Donald Trump is becoming less popular among people who say Fox News is their most-trusted news network, according to new data from Suffolk University.
Between June and December, Mr Trump’s favourability rating dropped significantly from 90 per cent to 58 per...

A court in El Salvador has upheld the 30-year sentence of a woman jailed for what she says was a stillbirth.
Teodora Vasquez, 37, has been in prison for nearly ten years.
She says she called an ambulance and collapsed after suffering severe abdominal...

White House officials have claimed they purposefully leave information on Russian interference out of Donald Trump’s daily briefings for fear it will upset him.
Current and former administration officials told the Washington Post they frequently plan the President’s daily brief (PDB,) around...

Britain kept the top spot in global financial services exports last year but Brexit threatens to raise barriers to its biggest market in Europe, TheCityUK said on Friday.
The body, which promotes Britain as a financial centre, said banks, insurers, asset managers,...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Thursday evening about the threat posed by North Korea.
A White House statement said the world leaders "discussed working together to resolve the very dangerous situation in North Korea".
The Kremlin said in a...

House Speaker Paul Ryan has pushed back against reports saying he has plans to leave Congress after the 2018 elections.
“I ain't goin' anywhere,” Mr Ryan told reporters when asked about the retirement rumours.
The Wisconsin Republican has reportedly told some of...

In the wake of the enormous Disney-21st Century Fox deal, Deadpool has hinted that he's not delighted about his new home.
Ryan Reynolds, whose Twitter account very much bleeds into that of Deadpool's, posted a photo of the superhero being escorted to...